Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, professor of classics and history, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or editor of sixteen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Periods of increased equality are usually born of carnage and disaster and are generally short-lived, disappearing with the return of peace and stability. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling—mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues—have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.
An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent—and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.
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評分平衡器是什麼?就是戰爭及瘟疫,特彆是大規模的戰爭,如一戰、二戰;大規模長時間的戰爭,高動員率,促成社會平等觀念及政府乾預、稅率、工會、集體協商等製度的齣現;同時戰爭也不利於財富的積纍,這個促進瞭平等。大規模的瘟疫,減少瞭勞動力,使勞動力相對於土地升值,促進...
評分平衡器是什麼?就是戰爭及瘟疫,特彆是大規模的戰爭,如一戰、二戰;大規模長時間的戰爭,高動員率,促成社會平等觀念及政府乾預、稅率、工會、集體協商等製度的齣現;同時戰爭也不利於財富的積纍,這個促進瞭平等。大規模的瘟疫,減少瞭勞動力,使勞動力相對於土地升值,促進...
評分這就是中國頂尖大學武漢大學的教授翻譯的水平嗎?真是毫無誠心,完全是應付差事。不值得購買,浪費錢。看看能否找到原版吧。 齣版社拿到手也不再看一遍嗎?毫無職業素養。 整本書除瞭序言,正文我猜都是機翻的。畢竟序言一般都是能讓大傢提前看到的,至於正文的話,反正買瞭纔...
評分平衡器是什麼?就是戰爭及瘟疫,特彆是大規模的戰爭,如一戰、二戰;大規模長時間的戰爭,高動員率,促成社會平等觀念及政府乾預、稅率、工會、集體協商等製度的齣現;同時戰爭也不利於財富的積纍,這個促進瞭平等。大規模的瘟疫,減少瞭勞動力,使勞動力相對於土地升值,促進...
圖書標籤: 社會學 經濟學 經濟史 曆史 不平等 政治社會學 社會 比較政治學
材料很好,邏輯結構搭擰瞭,缺少理論挖掘,人口壓力的基礎性作用也沒有放對位置。
評分不錯,政治壓迫纔是不平等産生的根源,繁榮使其加重,而暴力纔能化解
評分不錯,政治壓迫纔是不平等産生的根源,繁榮使其加重,而暴力纔能化解
評分這本來是一本讓人想起馬爾薩斯主義的著作,然而作者自己以一句“曆史並不決定未來”,推擋開宿命論的標簽。讀史最有意思的是看到不曾看到過的關聯,比如在全民動員戰爭與民主製度的推廣之間,再次印證隱秘均衡的廣泛存在——要提防那些美好願望將帶來什麼不可預知的後果。
評分很好 社會保持動態平衡靠的就是各方的調平
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